12:03 PM,
Apr. 11, 2013

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The Wayne Township school district has been sued by the family of a special-needs student who lost a finger when a staff member allegedly slammed her hand in a metal door last year.

The suit, filed in Marion Superior Court, alleges staff at Sanders School locked a student, identified only as C.M., in an isolation room after the student became frustrated during a math class and attempted to leave the building on the morning of Jan. 12.

Plaintiff Mark J. Matkovic, father of the student, is seeking unspecified damages from the Westside school district in the lawsuit filed by Indianapolis attorney ...